Kanye West endorses Donald Trump regardless of previous feud
Kanye West has endorsed Donald Trump within the 2024 US presidential election race, regardless of having been described by him prior to now as “a severely troubled man”.
A reporter stopped the rapper yesterday (February 13) asking him if he plans to help the previous president in his try to return to the White Home within the November election, and West was clear in his response.
“Yeah, in fact, it’s Trump all day,” he stated. “What you speaking about? what it’s.” Try the second captured on video under.
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After a private assembly between West and Trump in 2022, Trump wrote that the rapper was “a severely troubled man” who has been “decimated in his enterprise”. “I informed him don’t run for workplace, a complete waste of time, can’t win,” he continued.
West and Trump’s relationship stems way back to 2015, the yr when West first introduced his intention to run for president in 2020. Trump later informed Rolling Stone that he “hope[d] to run in opposition to [West] sometime”. The next yr, West declared to crowds at his Saint Pablo Tour that “if I’d’ve voted, I’d’ve voted for Trump”, earlier than assembly with Trump on the Trump Towers in New York Metropolis.
Throughout his time in workplace, West was a vocal supporter of Trump, and even requested the enterprise mogul to be his working mate when he goals to turn into US President in 2024.
West was a US presidential candidate in 2020 however went on to concede his run after profitable 50,000 votes. On the time of his withdrawal, he introduced plans to run once more in 2024, an intention he reaffirmed in 2022 whereas enlisting alt-right voice Milo Yiannopoulos to help along with his marketing campaign.
Nonetheless, in October final yr, West’s private lawyer Bruce Marks informed Rolling Stone that the rapper “shouldn’t be a candidate for workplace in 2024”. Official federal election paperwork additionally appeared to substantiate that no cash had been allotted for major bills on any new presidential marketing campaign.
In 2018, the rapper famously wore a ‘Make America Nice Once more’ hat throughout his look as a musical visitor on Saturday Evening Dwell. The rapper’s Trump-related tangent through the broadcast was minimize off to the overall viewing public, with Trump later tweeting that West’s look “was nice”.
Extra not too long ago, in November final yr, Trump once more voiced his help for West, in contradiction to his ex-wife Kim Kardashian. A guide by information reporter Jonathan Karl had alleged that Kardashian had organised for NFL stars to go to the White Home throughout Trump’s time period, in change for decreased sentences for the prisoners for whom Kardashian was advocating.
“I did assist with prisoner commutation, however provided that deserving, and rather more so for Kanye West than for Kim, who in all probability voted for Crooked Joe Biden, and take a look at the mess our Nation is in now,” Trump wrote in response to the suggestion.
Extra so than Kanye, Trump seems extra concerned about Taylor Swift today, not too long ago claiming that he made the singer “a lot cash” by signing the Music Modernization Act, though Swift didn’t significantly profit from the regulation.
It’s reported that Joe Biden’s workforce are eagerly looking for official endorsement from Swift forward of the election. She beforehand endorsed Biden in 2020 by a video message on her Instagram on the eve of the presidential election, and final yr she led record-breaking numbers to the Vote.org web site after encouraging her followers to register to vote.
In response to the rumours, Trump allies have pledged “holy warfare” in opposition to Swift if she does endorse Biden.